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British English? What's that? THERE'S NO SUCH THING!

English is spoken [...] speak Scots [...] speaks Gaelic [...] speak Welsh.

I was not talking about spoken language. It will take a few years before LibreOffice can be used 
for dictionary checking of spoken language.

Your message  perfectly shows the kind of emotions languages can evoke.

"all dictionaries", "all dictionaries for your country",
"choose from all dictionaries", "choose from all dictionaries for your
country".

That would get quite complicated.

I am sure some people could be annoyed also by being reminded that there are languages spoken in 
their country that they perhaps consider leftovers from invaders and not real language of their 
country. Or the other way around, people feeling they belong to an oppressed linguistic minority 
would complain if a dictionary of their language isn't installed even if they choose "all 
dictionaries for your country". 

Surely we want to avoid stepping into such a minefield.

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